MIXTURES OF FLUORINATED HYDROCARBONS AS REFRIGERANT ANESTHETIC
- 1 September 1956
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in A.M.A. Archives of Dermatology
- Vol. 74 (3) , 310-311
- https://doi.org/10.1001/archderm.1956.01550090084019
Abstract
At the present stage of knowledge we believe it is necessary to warn against the use in surgical skin planing of the mixture of 57% dichlorodifluoromethane (Freon 12) and 43% dichlorotetrafluoroethane (Freon 114) as advocated recently.1Unless it is employed with caution and in experienced hands, it is likely that congelational necrosis and sloughing will be produced, resulting in the loss of skin to an unpredictable depth, quite possibly exceeding that removed by the abrasion procedure itself. Subsequently it will be impossible to differentiate which of the two factors was actually responsible for whatever scarring occurs, and it is probable that the planing itself will be blamed for all. It is difficult to furnish a short communication giving adequate attention to all of the facts which we know to be pertinent to this question. Therefore only a few of our reasons will be given here. Since 1949 weKeywords
This publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: